Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STATES JARVIS II. STEDIVIAN, OF RANDOLPH, VERMONT.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,271, dated September10, 1861.

To @ZZ whom, it may cori/ocra:

Be it known that I, JARvrs H. STEDMAN, of the town of Randolph, in thecounty of Orange and State of Vermont, have invented new and usefulImprovements in the Mode of Applying Power to Rollers or Cylinders forthe Purpose of Expressing Water from Clothes and other Substances; andthe following is a clear and exact description of the same, referencebeinghad to the accompanying drawing, making a part of thisspecification.

My invention consists in the arrangement of double-hinged compoundlevers connected together and operated by an adjustable crosslever andsecured by a catch, the levers forniing the journal-boxes for rollersorcylinders, so that the space between them may be opened more or less,4as required for various substances, and the necessary amount of pressureretained.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe it, referring tothedrawingand tothe letters marked thereon.

The frame on which I arrange my levers and rollers is made with sills AA,into which are framed upright posts B B, and on the top are plates CC, and secured together by crossties D D, the whole width being the sameas the length of the rollers E and F, which may be of metal or wood; orthey may be of indiarubloer or of any other substance that is bestadapted to the purposes for which they are to be used. The levers a andb are pivoted to the plates C by bolts c c. In the fulcrum end arejournal-boxes ef, in which the rollers E and F are hung to operate.

At the lower end of the levers c1, b are short levers g and 7L,connected together and attached to a cross-bar G, which connects thelevers together on both sides of the frame, they being alike. To thecross-piece on the under part of the frame in the center is hinged along lever I-I, which rests upon the crossbar G, it being clamped to thebar by a strap or bar of metal I, the end being turned up at an angle topass through the lever, having a screw and thumb-nut t' on the top. Theposition of the levers can be slightly varied, and the power graduatedby changing the bar G in the notches on the strip j under the lever H.When the required pressure is obtained on the rollers,it can be retainedby hooking the plate Z on the lever II under the ratchet k, which issecured to the upright post K on the extended end of the frame.

'Io one end of the roller E is attached a crank-handle J, by which tooperate the rollers either way, as may be desired, one of the rollersbeing considerably elevated above the other for the purpose ot'conveniently taking in and removing the substances. Underneat-h therollers and covering the top of the frame is a broad fiat spout orconductor M for the clothes or substances to rest on, as Well toconductthe water expressed therefrom.

My arrangement of levers as applied to rollers for the purposes ofexpressing fluids from various substances, as Well as compressing andsmoothing others, has many advantages over any thing that has yet cometo my knowledge. It admits of a greater range of opening, While thepower applied is uniform and may be adjusted to any required degree ofpressure by changing the fulcrum on the long lever, and any pressure maybe retained by securing the lever-in the manner above described. In aword, it is portable, simple, cheap, and eiiicient, and Will be muchused for the purposes for which it is designed.

I-Iaving thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement ofthe double-hinged compound levers, the same beingconnected together by a rod or bar and operated by an adjustablecross-lever and catch acting upon cylinders or rollers, 'in the mannerand for the purposes herein specified.

JARVIS H. STEDMIAN. lVitnesses:

EDM. F. BROWN, J. B. WOODRUFF.

